Blog Hop: Pick a character from a book you are currently reading or have just finished and tell us about him/her.

I recently read Lindsey Leavitt's Princess for Hire and Royal Treatment. The main character is Desi Bascomb. She's just a typical 8th grader from small town Idaho. Her mom may dream of Desi being a pageant beauty queen like she was, Desi prefers to spend her free time designing funny T-shirts and watching classic movies. She's not very popular and has the typical low self-esteem of a young teenager.

This all changes when she discovers she has magic potential and becomes a Sub for princesses who need a break. While she helps young princesses get through state dinners and deal with royal princes, she discovers that she is a strong girl who is able to stand up for what she wants. The Princess for Hire books are super-cute. I highly recommend them.

Follow Friday: Do you have anyone that you can discuss books with IRL? Tell us about him/her.

Hmm...yes and no. My dad shares my taste in books about history and some of the adult fiction I read. My mother and I read a lot of the same adult fiction books. I've pawned a few books like The Mortal Instruments series and White Cat/Red Glove off on my husband, making him a fan of both series. I have one friend at work who is really into Twilight so we had a squealing coffee break on Wednesday to discuss The Twilight Guide. Otherwise, I don't have anyone who is as obsessed with young adult books as I am.

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I don't have anyone obsessed with books IRL either. My hubby hasn't picked up a book since we've been married. He's more of a gamer. LOL!! My mom and sis are big readers as well, so we do chat it up a bit. :)

Old follower hopping through! Ah, you're so lucky your husbands a reader! Same; none of my friends are quite as into YA... I'm bringing them round, one by one... ;)Have a great weekend!Meg @ The Book Addicted Girl

Happy Friday Alison! At least your husband accepted some books, mine adamantly refuses to even open a page of one of mine:) Oh well, he doesn't care when I got to the bookstore and come back with a whole bag full so I guess I can cut him some slack! Hope you have a great weekend:)

Old follower stopping by. I don't have anyone either to talk books about either other than my friends I met in the blogging world. Hare a great weekend. You can see my blog here: http://justnookit.blogspot.com/2011/04/follow-friday-6.html

Stopping by from the hop. So glad to hear you have some people to talk books with. Both my parents only read non-fiction, so there's not a lot of overlap. Fortunately, I have the other bibliomaniacs to talks books with!

YA is one of the areas where I am completely lacking in RL friends. No one likes YA. I have people for romance, fiction and historical fiction. But I have no one to share my YA books with. I want one! Maybe I should scout.

Yes I do! One of my besties is one of the operators of Pageturner blog Pixie and I have been friends since high school and she is the reason I am an avid reader . She is the mother of four kids one of which has autism, she shares her love of reading with her kids as well as anyone who will listen. She and I tend to have the same view points on the books we read with the exception of twilight she is a wolf girl and I am a SOUTHERN vampire girl.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, and I'm just returning the favor. I'm a new follower as well. If you have a chance, please make sure to stop back over as I have two giveaways running, with very little entries, so the chances of winning are really good. Thanks! A Book Obsession..

Wow, busy Follow Friday going on here. I, myself, do not have a hubby and I would be very worried if I did! :) My only outlet is blogging as no-one I know in person who is a big book reader.Thanks for stopping by my site and for the follow...very cool of you.Marc

You asked a hard question about quintessential Swedish books! I'm not really into the Swedish books at all. But yeah, Stieg Larsson. Perhaps Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist... but I really don't know. Most Swedish books are in the complete different genre for my reading habits!

Hi Alison!Thanks for coming by on my blog!I am your newest follower.It was nice to hear that you have been visiting the Baltic countries and Tallinn!By the way, I might take you up on your suggestion about asking help about blogs. I will probably do it by email :)Take care! I like you blog!

My husband reads mostly books at my suggestion. I'm his book finder, if you will. But mostly the books I suggest to him are ones that I probably wouldn't read. He did, finally, just read To Kill a Mockingbird - and loved it. I've been waiting for him to read that for years!

Heya! Thanks for commenting on my post! you're lucky I have no one at all to talk about books with :( All my friends thinks that i'm nuts because I like to read books, but they love me anyway :)An old follower dropping by :)

Finding an actual afficianado of horror literature around my neck of the woods is pretty much impossible, so I get where you're coming from with regards to finding people with an equally potent love for the same kind of books.

Obsessed is a good word. I guess there aren't that many of us out there. Funny, my parents were not big readers -- but I still ended up with this passion for books. I did get my 83 year old mom to read a Kristin Hannah book last year, and she liked it!

Awe, your so lucky you have people to talk to about books! i'm sad i don't because if I read an amazing one, I don't really have anyone to talk about it with. Expect I alway drag my boyfriend to listen to me tehe.

Hey Allison, just stopping by on the follow. Thx for the visit. Leavitt sounds very interesting. Love the blog it always makes me smile. Any new comics? Going to PRComi-Con in May, maybe you could fly over and visit! Have a terrific weekend reading !!! See ya!DanaReadaholics Anonymous

Hopping on through (belatedly, as usual). Hope you're having a good weekend!

Working in a library is dangerous... I'm around all these books and I keep finding more I simply MUST read. I'm proud of myself at the moment, I only have sixteen items checked out! (and that's a first since I started working here!)Amanda

Alison, thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm following you too. :) I've been meaning to pick up the Princess for Hire books, so good to know you've enjoyed them. I try to pawn off books on my husband, too, but he tends to think I read "girly" stuff. Maybe because some of them have princess in the title. ;)Happy weekend!

Hey! So the pretty reckless is actually pretty good. Taylors voice is pretty good a little gritty its good for the type of music she is singing. She wont be singing RNB anytime soon. Lol. Check out the songs Make Me Wanna Die and Just Tonight. You can You Tube them. For only being 17 I was pretty impressed but I had hella low expectations. I usually dislike actors turned musicians. Except I do live 30 seconds to mars. Jered. Leto is a better singer than he ever was actor

I don't really have anyone that's obsessed with books like I am either. I also find myself giving out books to other people I know in hopes that they will read it and then we can talk about it LOL. I keep trying to get my hubby to read, but he's an extremely slow reader and finds most of my books too long (says it will take him months to finish!)

Thank you for dropping by my blog Alison! It's great when we have a lot of people in real life that we can talk about books with right? I had a recent squeal fest with patients I worked with in the past week about If I Stay by Gayle Forman and how we would love to grab a copy of Where She Went. Lucky for me, I finally got the book and I plan to share it with them soon.

Hi! You mentioned on my follow friday that you were curious about my views on Sweet Valley Confidential. I actually did do a review: http://sheshines.net/2011/04/03/book-review-sweet-valley-confidential-by-francine-pascal/

HI GIRL! I'm following you from friday follow, wow...everyone comments!:) Please take a look at my blog and follow in return...the focus is on sci fi, paranormal, and historical romances....I give tips to authors every week now and sundays post...